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DR. TALMAGE APPEALS FOR MERCY
FOR OPPRESSED WOMANHOOD.
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WALLACE & OTTS,
LAWYERS.
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Gaffney, - - - S. C.
Office oyc. JL. Tolloson’s new store
In of] e from 1st to 26tb of each
montli;
Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB,
Dentist,
Oilice over R, A. (ones & Co.’« Store.
Can he found at ofllee six days In the week
A. N. WOOD,
BANKER,
dot ■ a general banking and Exchange
bvsi:) p \v, il Becured with Burglar
Pi'dJ ■'.> : i; i Autoniatic Tiuo Look
Buh 'y J)- |, ; it Boxes at moderate
rent.
Buy a ftn 4 bpIIh Rtocks nndBondi.
Bays Cot ; 1 y and School Ciaims.
Lour bu r.ueaa solicited.
Uvmands That She Have an UqmU
Chance ’With Man lu the Struificlc
of Life—Say* She I* lufalrly Ui*-
criminated Asaluat.
Washington, March 11.—This dis
course of Dr. Talmage Is an appeal for
mercy lu behalf of oppressed woman
hood and offers encouragement to
those struggling for a livelihood; text,
Ecclesiastes iv, 1, "Behold the tears
of such as were oppressed, and they
had uo comforter.”
Very long ago the ueedlo was busy.
It was considered honorable for wo
men to toll in olden times. Alexander
the Great stood in his palace showing
garments made by his own mother.
The finest tapestries at Buyeux were
made by the queen of William the Con
queror. Augustus, the emperor, would
not wear any garments except those
that were fashioned by some member
of his royal family. So let the toller
everywhere be respected.
The needle has slain more than the
sword. When the sewing machine
was invented, some thought that In
vention would alleviate woman’s toil
and put an end to the despotism of the
needle. But no. While the sewing
machine has been a great blessing to
well to do families in many cases It
lias added to the stab of the needle the
crush of the wheel, and multitudes of
women, notwithstanding the re-eu-
'orcement of the sewing machine, can
only make, work hard as they will,
between $2 and $.'5 a week.
The greatest blessing that could have
lappeued to our first parents was being
turned out of Eden after they had
done wrong. Adam and Eve, lu their
jerfect state, might have got along
without work or only such slight em-
doyment as a perfect garden with no
weeds in it demanded. But as soon ns
they had sinned the best thing for
them was to be turned out where they
would have to work. We know what
a withering thing it is for a man to
have uothiug to do. Of the thousand
[irosperous and honorable men that
you know 9‘JO bad to work vigorously
at the beginning. But I am now to tell
you that industry Is just ns Important
for a woman’s safety and happiness.
The most unhappy women in our com
munities today are those who have no
engagements to call them up in the
morning; who, once having risen and
breakfasted, lounge through the dull
forenoon in slippers down at the heel
and with disheveled hair, reading the
last novel, and who, having dragged
through a wretched forenoon and tak
en their afternoon sleep and having
passed an hour and a half at their
toilet, pick up their cardease and go
out to make calls, and who pass their
evenings waiting for somebody to come
n and break up the monotony. Ara
bella Stuart never was Imprisoned in
so dark a dungeon ns that.
Luhaypy Idleue**.
There Is uo happiness iu an idle wo
man. It may be with hand, it may he
with brain, it may he with foot, hut
work she must or he wretched forever.
The little girls of our families must he
started with that idea. The course of
American society is that our young
women are taught that the first, sec
ond, third, four, fifth, sixth, seventh,
tenth, fiftieth, thousandth tiling in
their life Is to get someinxly to take
care of them. Instead of that the first
lesson should he how under God they
may take care of themselves. The
simple fact is that a majority of them
do have to take care of themselves,
and that, too, after having through
the false notions of their parents wast
ed the years lu which they ought to
have learned how successfully to main
tain themselves. We now and here de
clare the Inhumanity, cruelty nud out-
rage of that father and mother who
pass their daughters into womanhood,
having given them no facility for
earning their livelihood.
Mine, de fitael said, “It is not these
writings that I am proud of, hut the
fact that I have facility in ten occu
pations, in any one of which I could
make a livelihood.” You say you have
a fortune to leave them. Oh, man and
woman, have you not learned that, like
vultures, like hawks, like eagles, riches
have wings and lly away? Though you
should he successful In leaving a com
petency behind you, the trickery of
executors may swamp it in a night or
some officials lu our churches may get
up a miuing company and induce your
orphans to put their money into a hole
in Colorado and if by the most, skillful
machinery the sunken money cannot
he brought up agaiu prove to them that
It was eternally decreed that that was
the way they were to lose It and that
It went In the most orthodox and heav
enly style. Oh, the damnable schemes
that professed Christians will engage
lu until God puts his fingers into the
collar of the hypocrite’s robe and strips
U clear down to the bottom! You have
no right, because you are well off, to
conclude that your children are going
to he well off. A man died leaving a
large fortulte. His son fell dead In a
Philadelphia grogshop. His old com
rades came la and said as they bent
over his corpse, “What Is the matter
with you, BoggsyV” The surgeon
standing over him said: “Hush ye! Ho
is dead!” “Oh, he Is dead!” they said.
“Come, boys; let us go and take a
drink In memory of poor Boggsyt”
Have you nothing better than money
to leave your children? If you have
not, but send your daughters Into the
world with empty brain and unskilled
hand, you arc guilty of assassination,
homicide. Infanticide.
There are women tolling in our cities
for $2 or $3 a week who were the
daughters of merchant princes. These
suffering ones now would he glad to
have the crumbs that once fell from
their fathers table. That worn out
broken shoe that she wears is ths
lineal descendant of the $12 gaiter in
which her mother walked, and that
torn and faded calico had ancestry of
magnificent brocade that swept Penn
sylvania avenue aud Broadway clean
without any expense to the street com
missioners. Though you live iu an
elegant residence and fare sumptuous
ly every day, let your daughters feel
It is a disgrace for them not to know
how to work. I denounce the Idea
prevalent iu society that, though our
young women may embroider slippers
and crochet and make mats for lumps
to sluml on without disgrace, the idea
of doing anything for a livelihood is
Uialmuorubje. U J» ft shame fyr a
young woman belonging to a large
family to he luetfleient when her fa
ther toils his life away for her sup
port. It is a shame for a daughter to
he idle while her mother tolls at the
washtub. It is ns honorable to sweep
house, make beds or trim hats as it is
to twist a watch chain.
So far us I can understand the line
of respectability lies between that
which is useful and that which is use
less. If women do that which is of no
value, their work is honorable. If
they do practical work, it Is dishonora
ble. That our young women may es
cape the censure of doing dishonorable
work I shall particularize. You may
knit a tidy for the hack of an arm
chair, hut by uo means make the mon
ey wherewith to buy the chair. You
may w'ith a delicate brush beautify a
mantel ornament, hut die rather than
earn enough to buy a marble mantel.
You may learn artistic music until you
can squall Italian, but never sing "Or
tonville” or “Old Hundredth.” Do noth
ing practical if you would in the eyes
of refined society preserve your re
spectability. I scout these finical no
tions. I tell you a woman, no more
than a man, lias a right to occupy a
place in this world unless she pays a
rent for it.
Work XcccNHnry.
In the course of a lifetime you con
sume whole harvests and droves of
cattle and every day you live breathe
40 hogsheads of good, pure air. You
must by some kind of usefulness pay
for all this. Our race was the last
thing created—the birds and fishes on
the fourth day, the cattle and lizards
on the fifth day and man on the sixth
day. If geologists are right, the earth
was a million of years in the posses
sion of the insects, beasts and bifds
before our race came upon it. In one
sense we were invaders. The cattle,
the lizards and the hawks had pre
emption right. The question is not
what we are to do with the lizards and
summer Insects, hut what tin? lizards
and summer insects are to do with us.
If we want a place in this world, we
must earn it. The partridge makes its
own nest before it occupies it. The
lark by its morning song earns its
breakfast before it eats it, and the
Bible gives an intimation that the first
duty of an idler is to starve when it
says, “If lie will not work, neither
shall he eat.” Idleness ruins the health,
and very soon nature says: “Tills man
has refused to pay his rent. Out with
dm!” Society is to he reconstructed
on the subject of woman’s toll. A vast
majority of those who would have wo
man industrious shut her up to a few
kinds of work. My judgment iu this
matter is that a woman has a right to
do anything she can do well. There
should he no department of merchan
dise, mechanism, art or science barred
against her. If Miss Hosmcr lias
genius for sculpture, give her a chisel.
If Itosa Bonheur has a fondness for
delineating animals, let her make “The
lorse Pair.” If Miss Mitchell will
study astronomy, let her mount the
starry ladder. If Lydia will he a mer
chant, let her sell purple. If Lucretin
Mott will preach the gospel, let her
thrill with her womanly eloquence the
Quaker meeting house.
It is said if woman is given such op
portunities she will occupy places that
might he taken by men. I say, if she
have more skill and adaptedness for
any position than a man has, let her
have It. ‘'lie has as much right to her
bread, to her apparel and to her home
as men have. But it is said that her
nature is so delicate that she is un
fitted for exhausting toil. 1 ask in the
name of ail past history what toil on
earth is more severe, exhausting and
tremendous tlia. that toil of the nee
dle to which for ages she has been sub
jected? The battering ram, the sword,
the carbine, the hattleax, have made
uo such havoc ns the needle. I would
that these living sepulchers in which
women have for ages been buried
might he opened and that some resur
rection trumpet might bring up these
living corpses in the fresh air aud sun
light.
A Woman’* Hltfht.
Go with me, and I will show you a
woman who by hardest toil supports
her children, her drunken husband,
her old father and mother, paya her
house rent, always lias wholesome
food on her table and when she can
get some neighbor on the Sabbath to
come iu and take care of her family
appears in church with hat aud cloak
that are far from indicating the toil to
which she is subjected. Such a wo
man as that has body and soul enough
to fit her for any position. She could
stand besi 1c the majority of your
salesmen and dispose of more goods.
She could go Into your wheelwright
shops aud b<*t one-half of your work
men at making carriages. We talk
about women as though we had resign
ed to her i'll the light work and our
selves had shouldered the heavier. But
the day of Judgment, which will reveal
the sufferings of the stake and in
quisition, will marshal before the
throne of God aud the hierarchs of
heaven the martyrs of washtub ami
needle. Now, I say if there he any
preference In occupation let woman
have it. God knows her trials are the
severest. By her acuter sensitiveness
to misfortune, by her hour cf anguish,
I demand that no one hedge up her
pathway to a livelihood. Oh, the mean
ness, the desplcubillty of men who be
grudge a woman the right to work
anywhere lu any honorable calling!
I go still further and say that wo
man should have equal compensation
with men. By what principle of Jus
tice Is It that women In many of our
cities get only two-thirds as much pay
as men and in many eases only half?
Here is the gigantic injustice—that for
work equally well if not hotter done
woman receives far less compensation
than man. Start with the national
government. Women clerks in Wash
ington got $900 for doing that for
which men receive $1,800. The wheel
of oppression is rolling over the necks
of thousands of women who are at tills
moment in despair about what they
are to do. Many of the largest mer
cantile establishments of our cities are
accessory *0 tliise abominations, and
from their large establishments there
are scores of souls being pitched off
Into death, and their employers know
Jt. Is there a God? Will there lie a
Ji dgment? I tell you If God rises up
to redress woman's wrongs many of
our large establishments will he swal
lowed up quicker than a South Ameri
can earthquake ever took down a city.
God will catch these oppressors be
tween the two millstones of ids wrath
and grind them to powder.
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Why is it that a female principal In
a school gets only $823 for doing work
for which a male principal gets $1,030?
I hear from all this land the wail of
womanhood. Man has nothing to an
swer to that wail hut flatteries. He
says she is an angel. She is not. She
knows she is not. She is n human be
ing who gets hungry when she has no
food and cold when she lias no fire.
Give her no more flatteries; give her
justice! Oh, the thousands of sewing
girls! Across the sunlight comes their
death groan. It is not such a cry as
comes from those who are suddenly
hurled out cf life, hut a slow, grind
ing, horrible wasting away. Gather
them before you and look Into their
faces, pinched, ghastly, hunger struck!
Look at their fingers, needle pricked
and blood tipped! See that premature
stoop in the shoulders! Hear that dry,
hacking, merciless cough! At a large
meeting of these women held in Phila
delphia grand speeches were delivered,
hut a needlewoman took the stand,
threw aside her faded shawl and with
her shriveled arm hurled a very thun
derbolt of eloquence, speaking out the
horrors of her own experience.
Stand at the corner of a street in
some great city at 0 or 7 o’clock in the
morning as the women go to work.
Many of them had no breakfast except
the crumbs that were left over from
the night before or the crumbs they
chew on their way through the street.
Here the;, corue! The working girls
of the cities. These engaged in head-
work, these in flower making, In mil
linery, In paper box making, but, most
overworked of all and least compensat
ed, the sewing women. Why do they
not take the city cars on their way up?
They cannot afford the 3 cents. If, con
cluding to deny herself something else,
she gets Into the car, give her a scat.
You want to see how Latimer and Illd-
ley appeared in the fire. Look at that
woman and behold a more horrible
martyrdom, a hotter lire, a more ago
nizing death. Ask that woman how
much she gets for her work, and she
will tell you (5 cents for making coarse
shirts and finds her own thread.
Years ago one Sabbath night In the
vestibule of our church after service
a woman fell iu convulsions. The
doctor said she needed medicine not
so much as something to eat. As she
began to revive iu her delirium she
said gaspingly: “Eight cents! Eight
cents! I wish I could get It done. I
am so tired. I wish I could get some
sleep, hat I must get it done. Eight
cents! Eight cents!” We found after
ward that she was making garments
for 8 cents apiece and that she could
make hut three of them in a day. Hear
It! Three times eight are 24. Hear It,
men and women who have comfortable
homes! Some of the worst villains of
our cities are the employers of these
women. They heat them down to the
last penny and try to cheat them out
of that. The woman must deposit a
dollar or two before she gets the gar
ments to work on. When the work Is
done, It is sharply inspected, the most
insignificant flaws picked out and the
wages refused and sometimes the dol
lar deposited not given hack. The
Women’s Protective union reports a
case where one of the poor souls, find-
lug a place where she could get more
wages, resolved to change employers
and went to get her pay for work
done. The employer said, “I hear you
are going to leave me?” “Yes,” she
said, “and I have come to get what you
owe me.” He made no answer. She
said, "Are you not going to pay me?”
“Yes,” he said; “I will pay you.” And
he kicked her down stairs.
Oh, that Women’s Protective union!
The blessings of heaven he on It for
the merciful and divine work It Is do
ing In the defense of toiling woman
hood. What tragedies of suffering are
presented to them day by day! A para
graph from their report: “Can you
make Mr. Jones pay me? He owes
me for three weeks at $2.30 a week,
and I can’t get anything, nud my child
Is very sick. The speaker, a young wo
man lately widowed, hurst Into a flood
of tears as she spoke. She was hidden
to come again the next afternoon and
repeat her story to the attorney at his
usual weekly hearing of frauds and
Impositions. Means were found by
which Mr. Jones was induced to pay
the $1.50.”
Another paragraph from their re
port: “A fortnight had passed, when
she modestly hinted a desire to know
how much her services were worth.
‘Oh, my dear,’ he replied, ‘you are get
ting to he one of the most valuable
hands in the trade. You will always
get the very host price. Ten dollars
a week you will be able to earn very
easily.’ And the girl’s Angers flew on
with her work at a marvelous rate.
The picture of $10 a week had almost
turned her head. A few nights later,
while crossing the ferry, she over
heard the name of her employer In the
conversation of girls who stood near:
'What, John Snipes? Why, he don’t
pay. Look out for him every time.
He’ll keep you on trial, ns he calls It,
for weeks, and then he’ll let you go
and get some other fool!’ Aud thus
Jane Smith gained her warning against
the swindler. But the union held him
in the toils of the law until he paid
the worth of each of those days of
‘trial.’ ”
Another paragraph: “Her mortifica
tion may be Imagined when told that
one of the two $3 hills which she had
Just received for her work was coun
terfeit But her mortification was
swallowed up with Indignation when
her employer denied having paid her
the money and insultingly asked her
to prove It. When the Protective un
ion had placed this matter in the
courts, the Judge said, ‘You will pay
Eleanor the amount of her claim, $5.83,
and also the costs of the court’ “
How are these evils to he eradicat
ed? Home say, “Give woman the bal
lot.” What effect such ballot might
have on oilier questions I am not hero
to discuss, hut what would he the ef
fect of female suffrage on women’s
wages? I do not believe that woman
will ever get Justice by woman's bal
lot. Indeed, women oppress women os
much ns men do. Do not women us
much ns men heat down to the lowest
figure the woman who sews for them?
Are not women ns sharp ns men on
washerwomen and milliners and man-
tun makers? If a woman asks a dol
lar for her work, does not her female
employer ask her If she will not take
90 cents? You say, “Only 10 cents
difference." But that Is sometimes the
difference between heaven and hell.
Women often have less commiseration
for womcn_thau jpen. Jf_fl wpmgn
steps aside from the path of rectitude,
man may forgive—woman never! Wo
man will never get justice done her
from woman’s ballot. Neither will she
get it from man’s ballot. How then?
God will rise up for her. God has
more resources than we know of. The
flaming sword that hung at Eden’s
gate when woman was driven out will
cleave with its tcraiblo edge her op
pressors.
Resolve to Excel.
But there is something for women to
do. Let young people prepare to ex
cel in spheres of work, and they will
he able after awhile to get larger
wages. Unskilled and Incompetent la-
jor must take what Is given; skilled
aud competent labor will eventually
make its own standard. Admitting
tuat the law of supply and demand
regulates these things, I contend that
the demand for skilled labor Is very
great and the supply very small. Start
with the idea that work is honorable
and that you can do some one thing
better than anybody else. Resolve
that, Gold helping, you will take care
of yourself. If you are after awhile
called into another relation, you will
he all the better qualified for It by
your spirit of self reliance, or If you
are called to stay as you are you can
he happy and self supporting.
Poets are fond of talking about man
as an oak and woman the vine that
climbs it, hut I have seen many a tree
fall that not only went down Itself, hut
took all the vines with it. I can tell
you of something stronger than an
oak for an Ivy to climb on, and that
Is the throne of the great Jehovah.
Single or affianced, that woman Is
strong who leans on God and does her
best. Many of you will go single
handed through life, and you will have
to choose between two characters.
Young woman, I am sure you will
turn your back upon the useless, gig
gling, Irresponsible nonentity which so
ciety Ignominlously acknowledges to
he a woman and ask God to make you
a humble, active, earnest Christian.
What will become of that womanly dis
ciple of tho world? She Is more
thoughtful of the attitude she strikes
upon the carpet than how she will
look iu tho Judgment; more worried
about her freckles than her sins; more
interested iu her apparel than In her
redemption. The dying actress whose
life had been vicious said, “The scene
closes—draw the curtain.” Generally
the tragedy comes first and the farce
afterward, hut in her life it was first
the farce of a useless life and then
the tragedy of a wretched eternity.
Compare tho life and death of such a
one with that of some Christian aunt
that was once a blessing to your housc-
hold. I do not know that she was ever
asked to give her hand In marriage.
She lived single, that uutrnmmeled she
might he everybody’s blessing. When
ever the sick were to be visited or the
poor to be provided with bread she
went with a blessing. She could pray
or sing “Rock of Ages” for any sick
pauper who asked her. As the got
older there were days when she was
a little sharp, but for the most part
auntie was a sunbeam—just the one
for Christmas eve. She knew better
than any one else how to fix tilings.
Her every prayer, as God heard It, was
full of everybody who had trouble.
The brightest things in all the house
dropped from her fingers. She had
peculiar notions, but the grandest no
tion she ever had was to make you
happy. She dressed well—auntie al
ways dressed well—but her highest
adornment was that of a meek and
quiet spirit, which, la the sight of
God, Is of great price. When she died,
you all gathered lovingly about her,
and ns you carried her out to rest the
Sunday school class almost covered
her coffin with japonlcas, and the poor
people stood at the end of the alley,
with their aprons to their eyes, sob
bing bitterly, and the man of the world
said, with Solomon, “Her price was
above rubies,” and Jesus, as unto the
maiden In Judea, commanded, “I say
onto thee, arise!”
ICopyrlght, 1900, by Loula Klopsch.]
Qaeer Scene at a French Fire.
“I happened to see the start of a fire
In Paris,” said F. D. Higbee. “It was
a rather ugly blaze In a three story
building. 1 thought the department
would never get there aud stood Jump
ing up and down and cussing the
French fire fighters for their slowness.
Presently, however, my anxious gaze
was rewarded by the sight of a small
platoon of gendarmes clearing the
street as if they were preparing for a
big procession. Then along came the
fire company and drew up In Hue In
front of the building. The engine and
a hose cart came lumbering along be
hind, and then there was a pause, the
entire company standing at attention.
In a few minutes the ‘real thing/ In
tho shape of the captain of the com
pany, appeared. He had on white
gloves and a fierce uniform. The whole
company saluted solemnly and then
•advanced’ upon the fire! Not a hand
had been raised to make a hose coup
ling or to do anything else until that
august captain, with those lovely
white gloves, had arrived and been
properly saluted.”
“But what," said I, “was happening
to the building during the time of this
pleasing ceremony?”
“Oil, It burned down. But the fire
department made a noble showing,”
concluded Mr. Higbee. “It was a
most successful operation, as the doc
tors say, but the patient died.”—Buf
falo News.
Enoaffh to Madden Him.
Lunatic (In dreary monotone)—I can
not put It on over my head; I cannot
put It In my pocket; I cannot wear It
on my feet. It will not stand on the
shelf, and there Is no loop to hang It
up by. It cannot he a lampshade, a
horsecloth or a chest protector. It does
not look like a hug; it is not a smoking
cap. It cannot he a cover for a man;
It Is not Ar—r—r—r—r|
Visitor (In asylum)—This Is Indeed a
sad case.
Keeper—Yes, sir; one of the saddest
that ever came under my observation.
Tills young man was but a little while
ago possessed of an unusually brilliant
Intellect, and a mind of truly remark-
aide depth aud g'-sp. Ho delved deep
u science aud solved abstruse problems
In astn nomy with ease. Psychology
was to him little more than recreation
aud metaphysics a mere pastime. But
a young lady gave him a birthday pres
ent of her own making, mid lu trying
to determine tho name aud use of It ho
was reduced to his present pltlablo
condition.—Collier’s Weekly.
Dear Little Mary Jones.
At the great exposition in Omaha it
was the custom for the people to regis
ter or sign their names In the different
state buildings. People who registered
were asked to give their occupations,
so that the book read like this: “John
Smith, farmer;" “Thomas Brown, car
penter,” aud so on.
A little golden haired girl asked that
she might register. She was told to
write her name and occupation, and
this is what she wrote: “Mary Jones;
1 help mamma.”—Kansas City Journal.
Enally Accounted For.
A Kansas writer, after contemplat
ing the statistics which show there are
fewer marriages in January than any
other month In the year, hunts far for
a psychological reason to bring to bear.
It Is not a problem for psychology, but
for plain common sense. The fact Is
that after spending all their ready cash
for Christmas presents the youth of
the land have no money to spend for
weddings.—Chicago Times-Herald.
Magistrate's Summons.
The State ok South Carolina, )
County or Cherokee. (
By Wm. Phillips, Esq., Magistrate in and for
said county and state.
To any lawful constable: Complaint hav
ing been made unto me by M. F. Samples
that J. it. Killian is indebted to him in the
sum of twelve and 50-100 dollars.
These are, therefore, to require you to sum
mon the said defendant to appear before me.
in my office in Gaffney, S. C. t on the 27th day
of March, 1900, at 10 o’clock A. M., to answer
to tiie said complaint, or judgment alii be
given against him by default.
Given under my hand and seal, at Gaffney,
S. C., the 19th day of February, A. I). 1!mk).
Statement, $12.50
Wx. Phii.mps, (L. S.]
2 20-law-16 Magistrate.
Plain Facts.
I will sell you for cash any
thing in my line consisting of
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoos,
Hats, Groceries, Shelf IIaid-
ware, and almost anything car
ried in a general store, as cheap
as any house in the city.
When in need of goods sec
my prices.
Yours to please,
I. M. PEELER.
S. C. & G. E. R. R. CO,
Schedule No. 4.
In Effect ia:oi A. M., Sunday,December 24th, '99
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Summons for Relief.
[COMPLAINT NOT SEKVEI).]
The State or South Carolina, j Court of
- Common
County ok Cherokee. ) Picas.
Loo I). Armstrong and C. A. Whitlock.
1 .uint ill's.
against
E. H. Woblior. II M. Penn.J. L. Barnett. J. M.
Barnett, A. M. Chastain, O. L Boswell,T. F.
I osier and II. I'’. Webber. Defendants.
To E. II. Wehlior, II. M. Penn. J. M. Harnett,
A. M. Ch;.'..'M aln. G. L. Boswell, T. F. Foster,
J. L. Bar M il and H. F. Webber, Defendants
in this action:
You are hereby summoned and required to
answer t he complaint in lids action, a copy
of which is filed In the office of the Clerk of
Court for said County, and to serve a copy of
your answer to the said complaint *on the
subscrilrers at tlietr office at Gaffney. South
Carolina, within twenty days after the ser
vice hereof, exclusive of the day of such ser
vice, and if you fail to answer the complaint
within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this
action will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
Dated Gaffney, S. C., Feh. :M, 1900.
AIte^t:
[Seal.] J. EbJefkeuies,
Clerk C. C. Pis.
• Buti.er & Osborne,
Plaintiffs' Attorneys.
NOTICE.—To tin' defendants E. H. Webber,
lb M. Penn. J. M. Harnett, A. M. Chastain,
G. L. Boswell and T. F. Foster, absent de
fendants:
Take notice that the summons of which the
foregoing is a copy, together with the com
plaint in tlds action, is this day filed In the
office of the Clerk of the Court of Common
Picas for tiie County of Cherokee and State
aforesaid.
Buti.er A Osborne,
Plaintiffs’ Attorneys.
Gaffney, S. ('., Feb. 24, 1900.
Tax Notice.
The lin e for the payment of commutation
(or road) tax lias been extended until May 1st.
1)00.
J. B. Jones,
«J-5-law-4t County Treasurer.
Between Camden,S.C. and Blacksburg,S.C.
bdol
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Price 50u. and $1. I-dirgc size contains 2H times
small size. Book all about dyspepsia mulled free
Prepared by E. C. DeWITT A CO.. Chicago.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
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Condensed Schedule of Passenger Tretne.
Iu Effect Doc. 10.1899.
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P. M.
P. M.
I*. M.
P. M.
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12 50
CAMDEN
12 25
5 30
8 50
1 15
DEKALB
12 02
4 50
9 20
1 27
. .WESTVI I.LE
11 .'81
4 30
10 50
1 40
KERSHAW
11 35
4 10
11 80
2 10
HEATH SPRINGS
11 20
3 15
11 35
2 15
PLEASANT HILL
11 15
3 (81
12 30
2 35
...LANCASTER
10 55
2 35
1 00
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RIVERSIDE. .
10 40
1 (81
1 20
3 00
. . SPK1NGDELL.
10 30
12 40
2 30
3 10
CATAWBA Jl .NC’N
10 20
12 20
2 50
3 20
LESLIE
10 10
11 181
3 10
3 40
BOCK HILL
10 181
10 40
4 10
3 55
NEW PORT. ..
9 35
8 20
4 45
4 02
.. T1R/.AH
9 30
8 00
5 30
4 20
... VORKVILLE
0 15
7 30
0 00
4 35
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9 181
0 50
ti 25
4 50
HICKORY GROVE
8 45
0 20
ti 35
5 (8)
SMYRNA
8 35
ti (8)
7 00
5 20
.. BLACKSBURG
8 15
5 30
P. M.
P. M.
A. M.
A. M.
Between Blacksburg,S.C., and Marion.N.C.
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PATTERSON SP'GS
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ti 2u
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ti 05
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11 35
7 22
MILLWOOD
5 53
3 05
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5 40
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2 45
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5 17
2 30
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P. M.
A. M.
P. M.
Northbound.
Lv Atlanta.('T
•• Allauta.ET
*• Norerose..
, “ Buford- .
“ Gainesville
*' Lula
•• Cornelia....
Mt Airy.
Toocoa
Ar. Eihertou..
Lv. Klherton...
Lv. \V'minster.
" Banana .
“ Central
'* Greenville
*' Spar'burg .
" Gaffuev
•• Hlacksuurg
•' Kina's Mt..
•' Gastonia...
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Ar. Norfolk...
Ar Duuvlllo ..
Ar. Richmond..
Ar. WhingtOB,
" M'inore P. R
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" New Vui k .
Southbound.
Lv
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Ph'delphia.
Baltimore..
Wash’ton
Lv K! hmnnd.
Lv. Danville..
Lv. Norfolk...
Ar. Oro'n»bor<j
s Ar
Lv. Grc'iisljoro
WEST.
Gaffney Division.
EAST.
_ . Charlotte..
Lv Gastonia.
*’ King's Mt.
•’ Bln< kshurg
•’ Gaffney....
•' Spnr'burg.
•’ Greenville
•' Central
*• Benoca
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Lv. Mt. Airy...
“ Cornelia ..
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•• Gainesville
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Ar. Atlanta,KT
“ Atlanta,CT
No. 12.
Daily
7 50a
8 5n a
9 bO a
10 05 a
10 55 a
10 58 a
11 25 a
11 30 a
11 St a
.9 00 a
12 bill!
12 52 p
1 48 p
‘2 04 p
3 37 p
4 20 p
4 38 p
6 03 p
5 25 p
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9 55 p
11 25 p
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FatMa
No. 35.
Daily
"TTisn
3 50 u
8 22 u
11 15 u
12 01 n
5 48 p
9 00 a
8 35 p
7 10 p
9 45 p
10 42 p
11 ’25p
11 42p
12 2t) 11
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3 28 a
il 45 a
4 18 a
4 08 u
6 02 a
5 26a
0 10 a
6 10 a
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No. 38.
Daily
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2 25 p
‘2 45 p
8 33 p
5 40 p
4 15 p
6 22p
0 13 p
0 40 p
7 02 p
8 18 p
10 47 p
11 45 p
8 25a
11 60 p
0 00 a
0 42 a
8 00a
10 15 a
12 43m
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No. 37,
Daily.
4 30 p
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9 20 p
10 45 p
11 OOp
6 50 u
8 35 p
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7 05 a
9 25 a
10 07 a
10 45 a
10 58 a
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5 40 p
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3 33 p
4 Up
8 Up
No. 18.
Kx.
Sun.
4 80p
6 30 p
8 23 p
7 33 p
8 OOp
8 30 p
Ift"
No. II.
Daily.
11 OOp
6 10 a
7 37 a
12 06:n
1 12 p
1 88 p
2 UOp
2 24 p
J 15 p
4 30p
6 42 p
8 08 p
0 25 p
7 OOp
1 OOP
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1 82 p
8 OOp
0 48 p
• 18 p
10 OOp
0 OOp
FatMa
No. 34
Dally.
11 SOp
12 60a
1 28 a
1 63 a
2 18 a
2 88 a
3 28a
i! 45 a
4 65a
COQa
7 08a
7 46a
8 02a
8 27a
8 61a
0 60a
12 23 p
I 38 p
6 26p
8 50 p
II 26p
2 68a
8 23 a
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1st Class.
EASTERN TIME.
STATIONS.
1st Class.
15.
13.
14.
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Daily
Except
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Sunday.
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P M
A M
A M
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1 00
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1 20
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CHEROKEE FALLS
7 30
2 40
1 40
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2 20
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Train No. 33 leaving Marlon. N. C„ at 5 it. m.
Batwaaa Lola and Athana,
9 *1 m
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STATIONS.
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No. 14 Ex.
Dally. Sun.
BiitTSi
10 08a 8tt»
0 28a
6M&
making close connection lit Blucksliurg
C., with Die Southern’s train No. 30 for
lotte, N. C., and all points East, and connect
ing with the Southern's vestibule going to
Atlanta, Gu., and all points West, and will
receive passengers going East from train
No. loan tho O. A N. W. R. it., at Vorkville,
S. C., at 8.45 a. in., and connects at Camden,
S. C., with the Southern's train No. 78 arriv
ing In Charleston. S. U., at 8.17 p. in.
Train No. 34 with paaaengercoaclt attached,
leaving Blacksburg at 5.30 a. m., and con
necting at Rock Hill, H. ('., wllli the South
ern's Florida t rain for all imlnts South.
Tri\ln No. 33 leaving Camden, S. C , at 12.78)
p. in., after the arrival of the Southern's
Charleston train connects at Lancaster, S.
('., with Die L. A C. R. R.; at Catawba Junct
ion with Die H. A. L., going East, at Rock
Hill, H. c., witli the Southern's train No. :>4
for Charlotte, N. ('„ and all iHiInts East.
Connects at Vorkville, H. C.. with train No. t)
on tiie O. A N. \V. H. K., for Chester, S. C. At
Blacksburg witli the Southern's vestibule
going East, and Die Southern's train No. 35
going West, and connecting at Marion, N. C.,
with the Southern both East and West.
NAML'KL HUNT,
t* resident.
A. TRIPP,
Superintendent.
K. II. LUMPKIN,
tieu'l. Passenger Agent.
Lv. .Lula . -Ar
Mayavill* ‘
Harmony'
! Ar. Athena Lv t
jiieetion~mad*rat Lula
plain line trains.
••A" a. in. "I»"p. m. “M” noop. “N*» night.
Chesapeake Line Steamers la dally aervta*
between Nor‘oik and Baltimore. .
Nos. 37 ano 86—Dally Washington and
Southwestern Vestibule Limited. Through
Pullman sleeping cars between New York aid
New Orleans, via Washington. Atlanta aad
Montgomery, and also between New YOKBMd
Memphis, via Washington, Atlanta aad Mr-
tnioghatn. Also sleesnt Pullman LlMAXlr
Obukhvation Cars between Atiaata aad New
Yoik. Flrstciuaa thoroughfare coaoun ha
tween Washington and Atlanta. Plniag ears
serve all meals en route. Leaving ”ratling
IngUn Mondays, Wednesdays aud Fridays
a tourist sluepiuscar will run throughbetwee*
Washington andBan Francisco without ehaaga,
Pullman drawingroom si seizing ears betwea*
id Norfolk- diowe
8 recusU>ro aud
0
lorfolk for Oli> Pojnt Comkort.
-United States Fl
•olid between Washington and New Orli
via Hnuthurn Railway, A. &W.P. R. R.
ooanecttoa at
r.
Fast Mali van*
Ml
Old between Washington and
loutburn Railway, A. A 1
LAN It. K., being composed
thronich without rheugu for passenger*Of
eiasse<i Pullman drawing room sleeping *•>%
between New York and New Orlsaaa, via At
lanta and Montgomery and between Char
lotte and Atlanta. Diulag oars ssrv* aR
bseals mi rontq.
Nos 11, 8.1, 54 and 12—Pullman slssptag ear*
between Richmond and Charlotte, via Daa-
vllln, southbound Nos. 11 and 1)8, northhoaad
Nos 34 and 12.
FRANK H GANNON, J M. CULP.
Third V P d Gen. Mgr. T. M., Washlagtesa
W. A. TURK, 8. H. HARDWICK.
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